He wakes up in the middle of the night at this time of year ”” bothered, sleepless. Tom Didone has gone to dozens of traffic fatalities that involve teenagers, arriving at scenes of shattering wreckage and telltale skid lines.
He is always struck by the senselessness of what he sees….
“It only takes a second to take a life,” Didone told several hundred high school students in Burtonsville one day this month, hours before their prom.